Agnes AI vs Notion AI vs WoLai 我来 vs SEA-LION
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Agnes AI
Singapore model lab with a free multimodal API, paid Token Plans and o...
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Notion AI
Notion's built-in agent, search and meeting notes, included in Busines...
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WoLai 我来
Notion-style Chinese workspace, owned by DingTalk since 2023
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SEA-LION
AI Singapore's open-weight LLMs tuned for Southeast Asian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 5.9 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free API key: agnes-3.0-flash text, image 2.x flash and video 2.5 flash currently $0; text capped at 10 requests/min since 23 Sep 2026 | Limited trial only: Free and Plus workspaces get a small amount of Notion Agent and meeting-notes usage to try | Free personal space: 1,000 blocks, 200 MB storage, 1 MB per file, 5 guests, wol.AI assistant 2 uses a day (AI marked free for a limited time) | All weights free on Hugging Face; a free trial API key at 10 requests a minute for proofs of concept |
| Paid from | Token Plan from $4/mo ($40/yr); app plans from $2.99/mo on iOS; paid API models per token | $20/member/month (Business, billed yearly; $24 monthly), the cheapest plan that includes Notion AI | ¥158 a year (Personal Pro), Team ¥248 and Enterprise ¥388 per seat a year, from 5 seats | No paid tier: production runs on cloud partners at their own rates |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 100M+ total users; 4M+ paying customers (AI is gated to Business/Enterprise) | — | Hundreds to low-thousands of monthly Hugging Face downloads per variant |
| Founded | — | 2023 | 2020 | 2023 |
| Maker | Singapore Sapiens Technology Pte. Ltd. (Sapiens AI) | Notion Labs, Inc. | DingTalk (Alibaba Group) | AI Singapore |
| Verdict | Agnes AI has turned from a consumer workspace into a model company with an unusual developer offer: an OpenAI-compatible API whose flash text, image and video models currently cost nothing, Token Plans from $4 a month, a... |
Notion AI's value is context: the agent, search and meeting notes work over the pages and databases a team already keeps in Notion, plus connected tools like Slack and Google Drive, with no copy-paste. Custom Agents exte... |
WoLai is a capable, inexpensive Notion-style workspace for people who work in Chinese. Block-level backlinks, multi-view databases and synced references are all there, exports cover HTML, Markdown, PDF, Word and CSV, and... |
SEA-LION is the open model family to start with for Southeast Asian language work: regularly updated, MIT-licensed in its newest releases, and evaluated on SEA-HELM, the regional benchmark its own team maintains. The Sep... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.